Up at 3am???? Yikes!
You could have at least stayed in bed until the much more respectable hour of 5am.
That stinks that you can't sleep well on vacation. I went through a phase like that and it comes to bite me every once an awhile. Boo!
What a fun solo morning. I can't believe you wait was as long as it was for Mine Train. Well, at least it wasn't a full 60 minutes. Sounds the queue is a lot of fun. Maybe I'll try standby one of these trip.
Of COURSE you had to take pictures - its a disease, I tell you!
Unfortunately, the 3 am thing is not unusual for me. I have no problem getting to sleep at night, but staying asleep is my issue. Once I wake up, I can't get back to sleep. So for me, having a long stretch of uninterrupted sleep (11 pm to 3 am) is really all I need to refresh. That, and coffee
I didn't mind waiting in line because I didn't feel any "pressure" to be commando. On this day.
"Hi. I'm Dee. I have a compulsion to take (non-flash) pictures on rides". "Hi Dee!"
Our first meeting will take place at Living with the Land.
I love those huge mounds of fresh fruit for the kids. Did they actually eat all of it?
That was really nice that you got to spend some time in MK without the group. If I ever encounter the Mine Ride with less than a 30 minute stand by wait, then I'm going to go in it to see all the interactive stuff. I'd also like to see the standby line for Peter Pan, but that one is still too long.
I hope you were able to eat at Columbia Harbor House. I finally had a chance to try the salmon and it was delicious. We have hardly ever eaten at Cosmic Ray's - I don't know why.
The cut-up fruit was definitely eaten every day. I'm not sure about the apples and oranges.
I would say that 30 minutes would be about the maximum time one should wait for the Mine Train. I was curious about the new Peter Pan queue too. You may be interested in my next update!
Cosmic Rays is so hectic, and it seems like you have to go to different lines if you want different entrees, which scares me with a big group I am trying to keep track of. That being said, we did end up here during the trip, and I enjoyed my food and we were able to get seating all together. We had a pretty good method of getting seats, and other guests were even helpful to us when we were saving seats, offering to give us tables as they were getting ready to leave.
Your life sounds busy lately! This is always such a busy time of year, but I do love the excitement that comes with all of summer still ahead. (although the weather doesn't feel like summer quite yet.)
Love all the pictures from Fantasyland since that is an area we haven't fully explored yet.
For me, busy is good, but it really has been overwhelming this spring. We usually travel in July, so the past several years I have also had trips to plan during this timeframe. But we are not going away until August this year so fortunately I still have some time.
I still have not explored much of New Fantastyland, but I have seen a heck of a lot more than I had prior to this trip!
Do your kids schools do any major high school trips? (I'm concerned that you will not have a future outlet for your school trip organizing skills)
OK, I wasn't worried until I read this!
No major trips. The band usually has a trip (NYC), but Ben isn't going to be in band in High School. Very few field trips, and parents most definitely aren't involved.
I'll be helping out with the secret Graduation night celebrations for the next few years, so that will have to do.
And I will continue to help the middle school teachers with the Disney trip.
I am Making a note of this. I think this would be great idea for our baseball team on morning of the games while we are there. We will have cars so I think us moms can handle getting this together 4 mornings.
It is definitely an efficient and relatively inexpensive way to feed a group. At some point I will gather all of the "Group Trip Travel Tips" in a single post.
How wonderful to have the morning hours all to yourself. I would've done exactly what you did. Too bad you couldn;t get there for rope drop, but you made good time.
Does someone sleep in the breakfast room too?
It was awesome!!!
I am ALWAYS there for rope drop, so it was tough for me to watch the minutes tick by. But I kept reminding myself that this was all bonus time.
Two teachers stayed in that room, along with all the food and extra refrigerators. the tables stayed outside of the rooms. In past years, it was just one teacher in the "breakfast room", but she is retiring. This was her last year doing the Disney trip, and the other teacher roomed with her to learn the ropes.
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